DAYS OF SERVICE

HWS students show their commitment to community engagement during several Days of Service throughout the academic year. During each, volunteers from campus and the surrounding area come together with the common purpose of giving back to the greater Geneva community.

Past Days of Service activities have included working at the Special Olympics, providing trail maintenance on the Ontario Pathways, spreading wood chips on a playground in Seneca Lake State Park and visiting with residents at the Clifton Springs nursing home.

Community and campus sponsors make the annual event possible by donating time, money, supplies and other items to keep the program going. Past sponsors have included Sodexho, Hobart Student Government and William Smith Congress, Student Affairs, The President's Office, Walmart, B.E. Wright (Snapple), Pepsi (Geneva Club Beverage), Finger Lakes Health, Geneva Awning and Tent Works, Clemens Signs, John Holtz Honda, Wegmans Food Markets, and First Book. Sponsor logos appear on the back of the official Days of Service T-shirts worn by all volunteers. If you would like to contribute, please e-mail DOS@hws.edu.

A Geneva tradition for nearly 20 years, Day of Service became Days of Service in 2008, when students and the Center for Community Engagement and Service Learning added additional Days of Service throughout the year so more HWS and Geneva community members could get involved and to create sustained relationships between community members.

GET INVOLVED

If you would like to sponsor or help coordinate the 2015-16 Days of Service, contact DOS@hws.edu.